In this week's CBC Search Engine podcast, there's a hilarious interview with "Joey Chaos," a teenaged new-wave goth rocker who's upset that some roboticists in Texas "stole" his name and look for their robot.

If that sounds like I'm being a smartass, this principle of just looking at the world rather than building up an internal representation of it is one that AI researchers and roboticists had to learn the hard way, after countless man hours and grant dollars thrown at the problem of trying to get computers to generate navigable, ongoing, updating models of the surrounding environment.